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id: enrich
version: "1.2.7"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# enrich — enrich

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 2.3M/mo

## What it is and what it does

Enrich is a set of extensions to the rich library that add features rejected or not yet accepted upstream. It provides an enhanced Console class with two key capabilities: stream redirection (capturing sys.stdout and sys.stderr via a FileProxy) and soft text wrapping (allowing the client terminal to decide where to break lines rather than the application). It also extends Console to handle ANSI escape sequences in already-formatted text, and provides a RichHandler for logging that uses soft wrapping by default instead of pre-wrapping output to a fixed console width.

The package targets developers building terminal applications or logging systems where output needs to adapt to the client's display constraints rather than being pre-formatted. It depends only on rich and supports Python 3.6 and later.

Use it for:

- Capture and record terminal output from sys.stdout/stderr while displaying it live using Console redirect mode.
- Build terminal UIs that reflow text based on the user's terminal width rather than a fixed application width.
- Log application output that will be displayed on web pages or terminals with unknown widths using RichHandler.
- Process and display output from subprocesses that contain ANSI escape codes without breaking formatting.
- Create logging configurations where log lines remain unwrapped and let the viewer decide line breaks.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Extends the rich library with a Console class that supports stream redirection and soft text wrapping, plus a logging handler that preserves client-side wrapping decisions.

Yes, if you use rich and need stream redirection or client-side text wrapping. The package is stable (MIT, no vulnerabilities, active repository) and has low install friction. However, note that the last release was 2022-01-10; verify compatibility with your current rich version before adopting.

## Install

pip install enrich
uv add enrich
poetry add enrich

## Installing enrich

Before you install: Low install friction; single dependency on rich. Repository is active with recent commits, though the package itself has not been released since 2022-01-10.

License in practice: MIT license permits unrestricted use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions—suitable for both open-source and proprietary projects.

Quickstart:

pip install enrich

from enrich.console import Console
console = Console(redirect=True, soft_wrap=True)
console.print("Text that wraps client-side")

Verify before relying:

- Whether the redirect and soft_wrap features work correctly with all rich versions currently in use.
- Current compatibility with Python versions beyond 3.10, given the last release was 2022-01-10.

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 2.3M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

rich console redirect stdout stderr, soft wrap terminal output, rich logging handler, ANSI escape handling console, fluid terminal text wrapping, rich console extensions, terminal-ui, logging-enhancement

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